Improvement in machines for filling spools



to the litters of referencemarked thereon.

UNITED STATES! PATENT @innen VILLIAM BBEITENSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT iN MACHINES FOR FILLING SPOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,4l71l, dated July 12, 1864.

To all whom. il? may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLiAM BREITEN- s'rEiN, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Filling Spools; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

The` nature of my invention consists in attaching the pulley, together with the spindle, upon which the spool to be filled is xed, in such a manner as to allow the fi'ictionpulley, through which the spindle receives its motion, to be moved upward, so as to bring said pulley clear ot' the driving-wheel; and, secondly, in the applica tion of aregulating guide or stand under the spool to be filled, with which the thread on the spool comes in contact when filled to its required size, and is thereby forced upward, so asto lift the pulley off the drivingwheel.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents a top view of my machine. Fig. II shows a front elevation, and Fig. lII an end iiew of the same.

Similar letters represent similar parts.

A is the frame of the machine, upon which the supports B and (l are raised, which carry the drivingshai't D, provided with a driving friction-wheel, E. The support B has two projecting arms, F F, to which studs or pins a a are fastened, acting as centers for the forked arms or levers G G, and upon which said pins ce and a these arms can turn. The other end of these forked arms G carries the spindle J, into which the spool S is fastened, with its friction-pulley H restiu g upon the drivin wheel E. The shaft D is provided with a thread or screw, L, operating the screw-wheel N, and through the same the cam-wheel M, which latter acts upon the lever O. O11 the end of this lever O the thread-guides I" P are fixed, which guide the thread from the main or large spool T to the spools S to be filled, and cause the thread to be evenly distributed upon the4 spool S, in the usual manner. The main or large spool T is ixed upon a pin, w, fast to the frame A, capable of turnin g freely upon said pin iv, and is acted upon by a spring, e, to prevent its turning faster than required.

R It are guides or arms attached to the support C, or to any other part of the frame situ ated under the spools S, and arranged so as to be brought nearer toward said spools S, or farther away, as may be desired, for the pur pose hereinafter to beexplained. The large spool T, from which the spools S are to be filled, being fixed upon its pin w, and the empty spools S, which are to be filled, being attached to the spindle J, the thread is taken from the large supply-spool T, passed through the thread-guide P, and fastened to the spool S, as shown in red lines. Motion is then 'given to the shaft D, and consequently to the drivingwheelvE, which latter will operate the spindlesJ through its friction-pulleys H, resting upon said wheel E, as above described. Bythis operation the thread is taken from the supply-spool T and wound upon the spool S, and is distributed in even layers upon said spool S through the action of the threadguide P at the end of the arm or lever O being rmly attached to some fixed part of V the machine, as shown in the drawings to the support G, will cause the spool to raise, so as to bring thereby the friction-pulley H clear of the driving wheel E, and consequently stop thereby its rotary motionv and prevent .any more thread being wound upon said spool. As before described, the arm It can be regulated so as to be brought nearer to the spool S, or farther away from the saine, whereby the amount of thread to bewound upon this spool can easily be regulated, and the rotary motion ofthe spool be stopped, and consequently the further winding up of thread upon this spool will cease as soon as the required size of the spool is obtained without any further attendance. In case any spool should get irregularly wound and require unwindin g, the

, arm or lever G is turned quite over, together with the spindle J, and the irregular-wonnd spool attached, sol as to hang downward when the thread from this spool can he passed through the thread-guide P and fastened upon another spool, and then wound upon thelatter in the manner above described.

Instead of supporting the spool--spindle J and its drivin g-pulley H in the end of an arm or lever, Cr, turning,` on a ixed center, this spindle J,with its pulley H, may be arranged to turn in suitable bearings Working in perpendicular guides, so as to alley the spindle and pulley to be lifted up perpendicularly to bring the pulley clear of the driving-Wheel, when the spool is filled to its required size and comes in contact with thc stand or arln R.

That I claiin as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The guide or arm R, arranged as de scribed, and operating,r in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

2. I do not claim, broadly, carrying,I the VILLIAM BREITENSTEIN.

lVitnesses:

HENRY E. RAEDER, JOHN STOCK. 

